Study fds gay unns brief - Washgton Tim

Contents:

• GAY RELATNSHIPS CAN BE MORE STABLE THAN STRAIGHT ON
• GAY RELATNSHIPS DON’T LAST BEE….
• HOW MANY GAY MARRIAG END IN DIVORCE?
• STUDY FDS GAY UNNS BRIEF
• MANY SUCCSFUL GAY MARRIAG SHARE AN OPEN SECRET

GAY RELATNSHIPS CAN BE MORE STABLE THAN STRAIGHT ON

Gays n have more stable relatnships than their straight unterparts. The first group nsisted of gays and lbians.

One hundred gays and lbians were terviewed as well as one hundred heterosexuals.

When asked about their love liv, gays were more likely to have long term relatnships. Though gays did state that they alt wh creased strs levels due to societal attus, they were more likely to report beg ntent and livg happy liv. Though they were more likely to have closer ti to parents, they reported spendg ls time wh fay than their gay unterparts.

GAY RELATNSHIPS DON’T LAST BEE….

After beg hont about their sexualy, homosexuals tend to ga a eedom which translat to happs and stabily.

HOW MANY GAY MARRIAG END IN DIVORCE?

Clearly, gays and lbians n have better relatnships than their heterosexual unterparts. The notn that all gays bounce om lover to lover is are many, many mted gays who want nothg more than to live their liv and be wh the love of their liv. Obvly, gays have ep, lovg relatnships and should be allowed to m to one another.

Approval of same-sex relatnships has been steadily risg sce 2009 (Pew Rearch Center, 2017), and the 2015 Supreme Court cisn endorsg same-sex marriage was a w for many lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) dividuals. This is nsistent wh prev fdgs: Gay and bisexual men are exposed to mory strsors that n -stabilize relatnships (Meyer, 2003; L, 2012).

STUDY FDS GAY UNNS BRIEF

Rearch fund by the Natnal Instut of Health on the Health of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Populatns. Prejudice, social strs, and mental health lbian, gay, and bisexual populatns: Conceptual issu and rearch evince.

Changg Attus on Gay Marriage. Clients (and reporters) often ask me whether I predict that the gay divorce rate will be higher or lower than the straight divorce rate – which most folks believe is about 50%. Tryg to lculate the gay divorce rate is gog to be credibly difficult, if not impossible.

Gay marriage is allowed six stat and six foreign untri; six other stat upl n sign up for “all the rights and duti of marriage” but is lled domtic partnership or civil unn – so are those folks nsired married or not? And, given how new the formal legal relatnships are, and pecially light of the lack of feral regnn of state marriag, the “take-up” rate the gay and lbian muny has been far ls than the percentage of mted straight upl that marry. By ntrast, many the gay muny, and y, even the lbian muny, do not ame their relatnship marriage terms.

MANY SUCCSFUL GAY MARRIAG SHARE AN OPEN SECRET

” Recent studi show that as few as 10% of gay men are a “legal” partnership, and even though the take-up rate is higher for lbians, is still only around one-third. Roughly half of the “unmarried” lbians and gay men are, nohels, livg relatnships, but for var reasons they choose to keep them rmal – even stat like Massachetts or California where marriage or domtic partnership is an optn.

And, sce sexual orientatn isn’t ually tracked even stat that have legalized same-sex marriage, a rearcher would have to look at dividual licens to sort between straight and gay marriag – and for some wh genr-ntral nam further quiry would be need. Bottom le, we don’t know how many gay “marriag” currently end “divorce, ” and chanc are we won’t know for s whether our legal relatnships last shorter or longer than the straight on.

Same-sex upl are far ls likely to raise children together, for obv blogil reasons and bee of lgerg nsequenc of a socializatn that disurag lbians and gay men om parentg, and is well tablished that havg children leads upl to get married and stay married more often. As a rult of a long history of discrimatn, lbians and gay men tend to have lower tn out and lower (spe the myth of the rich homosexual) and th are ls likely to fd themselv suatns where marriage is appropriate – and th they are ls likely to marry the first place.